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On Final Day of Peace Negotiations, NBA All-Star Luol Deng Posts Messages on Instagram Calling for Stability in South Sudan
Today is the deadline for the signing of a peace deal between South Sudan’s current president, Salva Kiir, and an opposition leader, Riek Machar, or else the country faces the possibiilty of economic sanctions, the BBC explains. Miami Heat player Luol Deng—a South Sudanese native who came to the U.S. to attend high school—posted three…
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Straight Outta Compton Grossly Exceeded Expectations and Made a Killing This Weekend at the Box Office
Hollywood number crunchers who make film projections are licking their wounds this Monday morning. Straight Outta Compton—the biopic chronicling the rise of the hip-hop group N.W.A—opened this weekend and is on track to pull in $57 million, an exceptionally good number for a release weekend, Variety explains. That’s more than three times what another major film…
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Morgan Freeman’s Stepgranddaughter Stabbed to Death in NYC
TMZ is reporting that Morgan Freeman’s stepgranddaughter was fatally stabbed Sunday morning outside her home in New York City. E’dena Hines, 33, was found lying on the street in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. She had suffered multiple stab wounds to her torso, the report says. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was…
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Julian Bond Flirted With Presidential Run in 1976
Julian Bond is dead. His death is being widely reported today by media organizations. But here’s an important event in his life that those stories won’t tell you about the former communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Council and board chairman of the NAACP: Julian Bond’s death comes 39 years after he flirted with…
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Watch: Outpouring of Grief at Funeral for Slain Teen Christian Taylor
More than 1,000 people attended the funeral Saturday for Christian Taylor, the 19-year-old football player who was shot and killed by an Arlington, Texas, police trainee at a car dealership earlier this month, according to the Dallas Morning News. Dozens of teammates from Angelo State University, where Taylor was to start his sophomore year, shared…
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Miami Police Union Slams Woman Who Posted Video of Cop Punching a Handcuffed Man
When Shenitria Blocker witnessed Miami officers arresting a man last week, she immediately whipped out her cellphone and began recording, mindful of rising tensions between blacks and police, reports the Associated Press. What she recorded was breathtaking, as evidenced by her reaction on a 47-minute recording that captured an officer handcuffing man, placing him in…
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Julian Bond, the Longtime NAACP Leader and Civil Rights Advocate, Dies at 75
Julian Bond, the longtime NAACP leader and civil rights champion, died late Saturday following a brief illness, according to the Associated Press. He was 75. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which released a statement announcing the death Sunday morning, called Bond unrelenting in his advocacy for civil rights, the report says. The native of Nashville,…
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Michael Brown 1-Year Anniversary Overtime Brag Lands Mo. Cop in Hot Water
St. Louis County police are investigating a reported Facebook comment by one of their officers who reportedly bragged about spending extra income earned while working in Ferguson, Mo., on the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, The Guardian reports. Todd J. Bakula, also known as “T.J.,” appeared to be bragging about spending extra…
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What Is on President Obama’s Summer Reading List?
Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ powerful memoir about race is among six books on President Barack Obama’s summer reading list, reports The Hill. Although Coates has been a frequent critic of the president’s efforts to address racial inequality, Obama will read Between the World and Me, a memoir about being black in America, during his 16-day…
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LeBron’s Foundation Picks Up $41,000,000 College Tab for Ohio Students
The LeBron James Family Foundation announced that it is providing more than $41 million to cover tuition at the University of Akron for 1,100 Ohio high school graduates, Fox Sports reports. In partnering with the university, James, who announced the program Thursday while hosting an event for students at Cedar Point Amusement Park, said he…
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